Larry Jones
Faculty/Staff profile
Dr. Larry Jones has been guest piano soloist with Lincoln's Symphony Orchestra, the Omaha Symphony Orchestra, the Rocky Ridge Music Center Orchestra, Nebraska Wesleyan Orchestra, Nebraska Chamber Orchestra, the Lincoln Civic Orchestra, and the Nebraska Wesleyan Symphonic Band.
Jones regularly performs as a chamber musician on NWU faculty concerts. He is a member of the Huntington Trio, a resident music faculty chamber ensemble that performs at Nebraska Wesleyan University and in the Lincoln community.
Jones was the official accompanist for the Lincoln District Metropolitan Opera Auditions for fifteen years, and he coordinates the accompanying staff responsibilities at Nebraska Wesleyan University.
His students have won state competitions for Nebraska Music Teachers Association and Music Teachers National Association. Several of his students have won concerto competitions and performed with the Lincoln Civic Orchestra, Lincoln Northeast Orchestra, and Lincoln Youth Orchestra.
BM in Piano Performance, Nebraska Wesleyan University, 1973
MM in Piano Performance, Yale University, 1975
DMA in Piano Performance, University of Colorado at Boulder, 1990
Piano
Piano Pedagogy
Dr. Jones has conducted research on eighteenth and early nineteenth century pianofortes. In 2004 he spent a semester in London, England visiting early instrument collections at the Royal Academy of Music, the Royal College of Music, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He was given permission to play many of the museum pianofortes in London and also at Finchcocks in Kent and at the Cobbe Collection in Surrey.
Nationally Certified Teacher of Music (NCTM)
President of Nebraska Music Teachers Association
Member of Music Teachers National Association
Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi
